TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Mirthful Haven. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$64.42 + shipping

Description: [Modern literature] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author to half-title; 'To John Sebastian Booth | From the Floats known | in Mirthful Haven as | "Pelfers" | June, 1935.' Gifted to John Booth on behalf of Tarkington's literary assistant Elizabeth Trotter Jr. Publisher's blue cloth with bird motif and titles blocked in white to upper board and spine. Blue, decorative endpapers matching bird motif on cover. Leaves lightly toned. Gutter is visible in a few places. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf, leaving a small mark to paste-down. Spotting and toning to edges, mostly top. Toning to spine. With rubbing to board extremities and some fraying to headcap. Very good. Booth Tarkington is one of few novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. He contributed heavily to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, a cultural boom in the early 20th century wherein most of North America's best art all seemed to stem from Indiana.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

TARKINGTON, Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1930.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Erasure to the illustrated front endpaper, bottom corners bumped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author at a later date. Moderately uncommon title, scarce signed.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.